WE JOIN LIVE OUTSIDE THE COURT WITH MORE INFORMATION ON THE NEW CHARGES HE FACES. GOOD AFTERNOON. GOOD AFTERNOON. POLICE SAY THAT THE JAIL WAS THE FIRST ALERT OF THIS ALLEGED MURDER FOR HIRE PLOT THAT THE SUSPECT, WHO IS CURRENTLY ON JAIL FACING ASSAULT CHARGES, WAS LOOKING TO GET THE VICTIM OF THAT ASSAULT KILLED. NOW IN COURT ACCORDING TO PROSECUTORS, THE 59-YEAR-OLD HAS A CRIMINAL HISTORY THAT STRETCHES BACK SOME 40 YEARS. THE MOST SERIOUS OF THE PAST CONVICTIONS -- ONE FOR FELONY MURDER IN CONNECTICUT BACK IN 1982. THAT WAS IN CONNECTION WITH A DRUG DEAL IN WATERBURY, CONNECTICUT, IN WHICH AN ALLEGED HEROIN DEALER WAS SHOT AND KILLED. HE WAS ARRESTED LAST YEAR AND CHARGED WITH ASSAULTING HIS GIRLFRIEND. SHE TOLD POLICE HE TRIED TO STRANGLE HER. HIS BAIL WAS SET AT $250,000 , WHICH KEPT HIM BEHIND BARS. HE HAS BEEN INCARCERATED SINCE THAT ARREST IN OCTOBER. WHILE AN INMATE, THE ALLEGATIONS THAT HE ATTEMPTED TO OFFER MONEY TO A FELLOW INMATE WITH THE IDEA THAT THIS INMATE WOULD THEN KILL HIS GIRLFRIEND. IN ADDITION TO THAT , THE DEFENSE RESERVE THEIR RIGHT TO ARGUE BAIL. BAIL WAS SET AT $500,000.